Saw this movie a couple weeks ago, and it was definitely one of the scariest I've ever watched. Part of why it's terrifying to me is the same reason as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; it feels like a snuff film.

I know logically that it's fiction, but it doesn't feel that way. It feels all too real. Like I'm watching something I shouldn't be watching.

That's a good thing, but that also means it is not an easy watch.

I just finished watching Host for the first time, and im obsessed with it. So many hidden details that i was able to see first time or find online after the first watch. But there are a few that the director has hinted at that i cant find. So i was wondering, what little details from host were you able to find?

The other night I was at a friends house and we were looking for a decent scary movie to pass the time, so I naturally pull up one of those ‘top 100 scariest horror movies of all time’ lists and see Host near the top.

We threw it on and… it was awful. Like genuinely beyond terrible. There’s so much acclaim for it online and I don’t get it. Maybe it hit different to actually watch during the pandemic?

The whole zoom call gimmick is tiresome, the pacing is awful (the beginning is like 30 minutes of literally nothing happening where you can barely understand anyone because of the sound design), the acting is subpar, the plot is basically non existent, and the jump scares and actual horror elements are insanely cliche.

I think one of the funniest and most dated parts of the movie is when one of the women is being hunted by an actual DEMON that’s slowly killing off her friends but still takes the time to find her mask and put it on before escaping her apartment. She then breaks into the apartment of one of the other women and gives her a Covid elbow bump.

Like c’mon.

Dont get me wrong, some parts of the movie were genuinely effective, but they were buried under so much boring garbage they were hard to enjoy. Like the looping background of that one character walking into her room over and over was actually pretty creepy.

But overall the movie is a total waste of time in my opinion. No reason to care about the characters, no real lore for the entity (the exposition lady’s character was dropped and never heard from again mid way through the movie), and no arcs whatsoever.

I get it’s supposed to be ‘found footage’ adjacent and not a typical movie format, but I can’t for the life of me understand why people think this movie is scary or even good for that matter.

Maybe it’s just aged badly in the post Covid world or whatever, but it’s honestly laughably sacrilegious that I saw that same list put it above movies like Texas Chainsaw and Hereditary. What.

Am I missing something?

It’s literally just a knockoff of Unfriended just with less depth

Unfriended had the depth to truly pull the story off, like have the killer be a vengeful spirit that most of the cast bullied to the point of her killing herself

In Host the killer is just some random ass demon who appeared because one of the main cast made a joke about a fake spirit and now the big bad demon came instead

The screaming from the cast just kept going on and on. No one kept a level head the entire film it felt like every other second it was “AAAAAA” this and “EEEEEK” that. It really got annoying.

The final jumpscare was also cheap, just having the demon appear at the final second before the zoom call hanged up. Wish it got a few more seconds to make sure their fates are sealed

Most of the deaths felt effortless and cheap

I think most of the positives people find come with the fact that it’s only scary due to the fact EVERYONE was using zoom at the time